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Systemic Treatment and Survival in Carcinoma of the Breast

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Breast Cancer: Origins, Detection, and Treatment

Part of the book series: Developments in Oncology ((DION,volume 43))

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Abstract

The effect of systemic treatment upon survival after mastectomy is reviewed. It is concluded that treatment may have a small effect upon the probability of relapse, it may delay relapse and increase survival after this event. These effects appear to be independent of the major prognostic indicator, axillary node involvement, but are dependent upon the presence of steroid hormone receptors with respect to endocrine therapy.

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  1. Christie Hospital & Holt Radium Institute, Manchester 20, UK

    A. Howell, G. G. Ribeiro, D. M. Barnes & M. Jones

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  1. AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

    Marvin A. Rich  & Jean Carol Hager  & 

  2. Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK

    Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou

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Howell, A., Ribeiro, G.G., Barnes, D.M., Jones, M. (1986). Systemic Treatment and Survival in Carcinoma of the Breast. In: Rich, M.A., Hager, J.C., Taylor-Papadimitriou, J. (eds) Breast Cancer: Origins, Detection, and Treatment. Developments in Oncology, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2309-9_26

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